Online courses give students the flexibility to earn a college degree while juggling responsibilities such as work and family. But it is not uncommon for students to experience a few hiccups along the way. More...
2 septembre 2019
2 septembre 2019
Learning About Online Learning at Small Private Colleges
The Consortium for Online Humanities Instruction is one of the largest-scale experiments (at least if you measure scale by the number of institutions involved, rather than enrollments) in online postsecondary learning. More...
2 septembre 2019
Is Online Learning the Electric Car of Higher Ed?
Few of us doubt that, at some point, we will all be driving battery-powered vehicles. Will teaching and learning in higher education move from mostly a face-to-face activity, to one that is mainly done online? This shift from residential to online learning is occurring rapidly at the graduate education level. More...
2 septembre 2019
6 Social Learning Techniques for Online Educators
Humans are social creatures. Even the most introverted among us benefit from learning relationships, whether with our instructors, our peers, our mentors, or our mentees. In online education, where learners tend to feel more isolated, this kind of social learning especially important. More...
2 septembre 2019
How Four Technologies Created The ‘Perfect Storm’ For Online Learning [at Scale]
When MOOCs first burst onto the scene in 2012 — the year The New York Times dubbed ‘the year of the MOOC’ — their success was enabled largely by the convergence of four key technologies: cloud computing, video distribution at scale, gamification and social networking. Without these technologies, we would not have the high quality digital learning at scale that we now enjoy. More...
31 août 2019
e-classe, la plateforme numérique au service des enseignants
La plateforme e-classe est une vaste bibliothèque numérique de ressources éducatives, destinée à épauler les enseignants dans l’élaboration de leurs séquences pédagogiques. Elle est l’un des outils développés pour mettre en œuvre la Stratégie numérique pour l’éducation, balisant la transition numérique dans l’enseignement, dans le cadre du Pacte pour un Enseignement d’excellence. Plus...28 août 2019
« Coursera sélectionne les meilleures universités et les meilleures entreprises dans le monde »
Blog Headway - Olivier Rollot. Coursera propose aujourd’hui une large gamme de produits sur sa plateforme : plus de 3 500 cours sont proposés sous différents formats. L’entreprise propose ainsi des MOOCs, des certificats, des professional certificates, des programmes de spécialisation ou encore de diplômes de Master délivrés par HEC Paris ou l’université d’Illinois. Plus...
26 août 2019
Patent Fight Over Online Schooling
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Justin Pope[Edit][Delete]: Patent Fight Over Online Schooling, Business Week [Edit][Delete] August 28, 2006Business Week has discovered the Blackboard patent fight and in a typically one-sided article attempts to depict the fight as being between Blackboard and "the academic computing community, which is fighting back in techie fashion -- through online petitions and in a sprawling Wikipedia entry that helps make its case." Blackboard is given credit for an invention (though it is characterized as "obvious" and "incremental") although it should not be (even Blackboard's "obvious" and "incremental" developments were discovered prior to its claim). The 'market' is described as entirely occupied by commercial products, which is simply false ("Blackboard has about 60 percent of the market for those systems, followed by eCollege and Desire2Learn with about 20 percent each, according to Eduventures"). More...
26 août 2019
How to remove the barriers to innovation in higher education and online learning
By . In the context of my series on innovation and change in post-secondary education/higher education, I found Morriss-Olson’s article interesting. It lists the following barriers to change:- Risk avoidance
- Zero-sum thinking
- Accreditation
- Tradition and culture
- Leadership
- Internal systems
- Recruitment processes
- Faculty (self-)governance
- Organizational silos
- Success (thus preserving the status quo).
26 août 2019
Welcome back to online learning
By . I hope all my readers in the northern hemisphere have had as good a summer as we have had here in Vancouver, and you have come back renewed and ready to go in the continually interesting world of online learning. More.../https%3A%2F%2Fprofilepics.canalblog.com%2Fprofilepics%2F1%2F0%2F1076071.jpg)